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11th June 2016
05:53pm BST

Photo-syncing on an iPhone for example, was an optional feature introduced by iOS in 2012, which, if enabled, automatically synced photos taken on the iPhone to a private photo album on a user’s Facebook page.
Now, Facebook is giving users until July 7 to save those photos using the Facebook Moments app or else they will be removed.
It is only the synced photos albums that will be affected, but considering how many Facebook photos originate from smartphones these days, that could be quite a lot of photos for quite a lot of people.
The tactic of pushing the Moments app in this way has been used to push another Facebook app, Messenger, in the past, with both of them featuring prominently in the highest-ranking apps in the App Store as a result.
Clever people, those Facebook folks.
It’s a bit of an inconvenience to have to go to the trouble, but you can’t say you weren’t warned.